20 gallon Reef tank build

Lars, you crack me up..... I love how your gonna do this.... even with a 2.5 tank... nothing goes to waste! You are such a go getter... awesome, just awesome! keep ya the good work.

2.5 wont be for a while, but im still gonna do it. Might even just do seahorses in the ten gallon.

But on another note, THE FUCKING TURBO SNAIL WENT ON A RAMPAGE WHILE I WAS GONE. Drug the purple zoa all around the tank, found it behind the tavern, and knowck all the others over or into the sand. HE quickly got his ass dropped in the 20. Larson was trying to bite me the whole time I was trying to get the coral of course. Dx

HAHAHA you will find that you have to glue the frags down or critters will carry them off and knock them over all the time. I found my starfish crawling across the front of the tank the other day carrying one of my acan colonies along with it. Don't know where he thought he was taking it, but I took it away from him and put it back where I had it. I use superglue gel to glue things down with.
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lilfishie wrote:HAHAHA you will find that you have to glue the frags down or critters will carry them off and knock them over all the time. I found my starfish crawling across the front of the tank the other day carrying one of my acan colonies along with it. Don't know where he thought he was taking it, but I took it away from him and put it back where I had it. I use superglue gel to glue things down with.
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LOL thats great. Such a neat little starfish, takin his buddies for a ridee. What specific kind do you use to glue them down?

OH! And the feather dusters started poppin out this morning!

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You want to use a generous amount. You can take the coral piece out of the water to apply the glue to it. When you put it back in the water, the glue is going to film over. When you place it on the rock where you want to glue it to, scrape it around to break the film layer and force some of the glue to stick to the rock and them press it down firmly for just a moment. It will take hold quickly. You can use a pair of cutting plyers to cut the post off the frag plug or just place the post in a hole in the rock. The zoas will multiply and cover the plug.

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sweett, thank you! : )

Lookin' great! Love the little baby clown, too cute!

Traded the Malawi babies for some saltwater suppliments from gosu![You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

I made it to gig harbor and back! I LIVEDDDDDDD, I have tasted freedom!

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lol mattress ranch? that's heading to Gorst! wow, nice job lol BTW, great job so far on your tank

I know! I was so proud of myself. This was the way back, was like 6 miles to bremerton. Tacoma highway people are assholes, specially those treatment trucks. :/

But thank you!

I recognize those bottles of stuff

aaronfeeney wrote:I recognize those bottles of stuff

one question, how did you fit that squeezer thing in the iodide bottle? D:

An Ill proly end up givin half of em back to gosu

MORE CORAL PICS

Thanks to the suppliments and acintic lighting the one coral that never opened FINALLY OPENED!

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Moved the other two off the rocks since the hermits budgin em now! Put em on drink lid lol

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The clowns waiting to attack me

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Larson comin after me when I touch her corals

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Lewis and Larson in the 16 gallon bowfront, downgraded them to the 10 gallon. This was the first day I had Larson, she still gets along GREAT with Lewis, the one before her would dive bomb his sides and fin nip.

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AND THE 10 GALLON HAS A NEW HOME! Goin to little sisters room! Shes gonna put a horendously ugly pajama cardnial pair in it.

I love Pajama Cardinals!!!!

regan24 wrote:I love Pajama Cardinals!!!!

I like Bangai Cardinals.

IT LOOKS LIKE SOMEBODY PUKED ON THE PAJAMA CARDINALLLLL D:

LOL! That's why they're so rad!!!! Banggai are pretty too, I will give you that, but PJs have a special place in my heart.

I would like them if their colors were like BRIGHT, but they just look so dull. : (

Do you have any saltwater fish cept GSP?

Just my cremcicle Molly. Not "technically" a saltwater fish, but he's converted!!! My 90 was supposed to be a reef tank, but then I found out Winston wouldn't go well with corals (this is pre-SW knowledge lol) and then the lighting situation was SO expensive... As soon as I can get my own place I'm going to do a large community SW reef! So excited, I'll have plenty of cardinals and I'll name one Lars. Just for you.

YAY!!!! Ill try and get my sis to name one hers guybroad lol

but thats awesome! 90 gallons, dayum girl!

LMFAO Hilarious! She'd be the most epic fish in the tank, totally.

I got it on CL! Tank and stand, 120 bucks. Couldn't pass that up But then it turned into a South American tank. I love my Oscars!!

dude they called me dudechick for the longest time, guybroad is sooo much cooler!

WOW, I got my 46 bowfront bare bones for 100$. What color oscars ya got?

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This is them when they were WEE babies.

Lanna (the albino) is actually an albino red oscar, Sterling (tiger) is..a tiger.. lol damnit. But they're SO much bigger, I gotta find my cord so I can upload more recent pics.

Also, this is my 90:

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WHEW THAT PUPPIES BRIGHT! Diggin the gravel color!

I used to have a little tiger oscar, his name was rommulous, so cool! But I bet hose guys are gorgeous now, prolly 12"long to lol

LOL In the 2 months that I've had them, Sterling has about tripled. In TWO MONTHS! He's up to about 5/6 inches. Lanna is staying about 2-3. She won't grow! Weird.

lars on wrote:I would like them if their colors were like BRIGHT, but they just look so dull. : (

Do you have any saltwater fish cept GSP?

You calling my Dot dull? Yeah I guess the colors are not a bright as others, but he's got a great personality
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LOL Forgot you had one! Hes in the 75 isnt he? His color scheme is pretty, brown dots not red, and his black bar is almost solid, the other ones look like a mess lol

OMG okay, so just got some foam spray. Gonna try and do a lil background for the seahorse tank since its empty now. Will post pics later of the disaster in the making

Hermit crab is buddies with all the coral frags now. Just chills by em.

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I have an electric blue hermit crab, those guys are GORGEOUS! Your pajama is cute Love them!!

Oh man, I'd love to do a 20 long seahorse tank. If you do it you HAVE to do a thread on the journey!

Lol Imma do it, but its goin in a 2.5 gallon. Got the spray tonight for the background. Ill be lucky if theres over 1.5 gallons of water in the tank when Im done

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WHOO! What kind of horsies?

4-6 lil dwarf seahorses! :DDD

Aww jealous! I'm kind of nervous to keep those because of how hard feeding them is. I've done lots of research and most people say a lot of them die because they don't eat well in captivity

YEah Im gonna get some brine shrimp and do a test run hatchery before I even THINK of getting them lol

Let me know how that goes!

HORRIBLE ABSOLUTLY HORRIBLE WAS HOW IT WENTT!! WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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WHAT THE HELL happened there!?!?! LOL! Yet I'm so sorry hahaha you'll be lucky if you can get a HALF gallon in there! Insane!! Did someone get trigger happy?

This foam EXPANDS when it dries.

LOL
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ROFLMAO thats horrible! im really liking the progress even though this hasnt been comented upon in 5 days. im so jealous i gotta hit lilfishie up sometime, trying to get some corals!

teddyzaper wrote:ROFLMAO thats horrible!

Yes...That is horrible, although I am LMAO too. I'm sorry, its funny. It just keeps expanding. You should be able to cut it out. I dont think it will stick to the glass although I'm not entirely sure about that. You need a slightly bigger tank for those little guys anyway. You will wish you went bigger anyway. 10 gal would be a good size. Give you some room for a coulpe pieces of gorgonian for the little guys to hang on to.

Yeah, Im just gonna make the 2.5 a planted FW tank, tiny tiny, prolly no fish. But even I crack up looking at the pictures now lol

I dont even know how I would fit equipment in there, got it all hollowed out though, doesnt look half bad, jus gotta scrape the crap off the front of the glass.

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Got 2 heaters in the 20 gallon, gonna throw the clowns in tonight, coral in a few days if things go well

sounds great! although watch out, dont add fish to fast. oh and btw, my friend bought that clown that you were adoring sorry lol. anyways, for the 2.5 i bet you could pull off a nice little shrimp mayhem garden or a TINY betta tank.... lil to small for a betta though. add some shrimp and maybe a few minor pencilfish (smallest american fish less then 1 inch) and it would look awsome!

WHATTT? Well atleast he got a good home. I used the money to buy a piece of LR from lorrie thats bigger then my head lol, way better buy.

The tanks been running prolly 3 weeks, with cycled LR and sand, already Diatom bloomed, ammonias at zero.

Yeah I wouldnt put a ish in the 2.5 WAYYYY to small, ill look into pencilfish, never heard of em. Sent you a pm to

Pickin up some cheap coral frags from a guy in Port Orchard after work on Thursday, cant wait to finally get a green stripped mushroom!

lars on wrote:Found out seahorses hate water flow. Also found out most people said it is harder to run a 2.5 gallon SW tank than keeping sea horses.

But found an article on how someone used a modded Hagen Aquaclear 70 as a sump/refugium on their 2.5 pico seahorse tank. And just by chance I got one 2 days ago, so YAY. Got the carbon bag today, gonna smash up some remaining live rock and start this puppy up!

The smaller the tank the more difficullt it is to keep anything, Seahorses From what I hear are extremely sensitive as well.. Well only being 2.5 gallons that does not leave alot of room for error...
Looks F ' N Sweet though

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lars on wrote:Found out seahorses hate water flow. Also found out most people said it is harder to run a 2.5 gallon SW tank than keeping sea horses.

But found an article on how someone used a modded Hagen Aquaclear 70 as a sump/refugium on their 2.5 pico seahorse tank. And just by chance I got one 2 days ago, so YAY. Got the carbon bag today, gonna smash up some remaining live rock and start this puppy up!

The smaller the tank the more difficullt it is to keep anything, Seahorses From what I hear are extremely sensitive as well.. Well only being 2.5 gallons that does not leave alot of room for error...
Looks F ' N Sweet though

Yow, I totally called off my seahorsies, to expensive and really annoying feeding schedule. Maybe later, or get a bigger h.erectus for the 20

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Different horses, same care level. They are difficult. They can not take a change in water parameters or quality. They are all very fragile.
Not to discourage you though.
I gave it a try. I had a mated pair for about 6 months. Then I had an issue with my new saltwater mix having a high ammonia level and didnt realize it and lost both of them. Then with the high ammonia came a lot of bad algae. I took everything out of that tank, cleaned it up and went back to fish. Being gone 13 hours a day, I could not care for seahorses they way they need to be cared for. I loved these guys. Really upsetting to loose them.
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alright, no seahorses all together. imma just focus on makin the reef pretty and super healthy. An Im sorry to hear that lilfishie, they were pretty. ):